Trump-Linked Data Firm: We Asked Assange For Clinton Emails In June 2016

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published NOVEMBER 10, 2017 3:27 PM

Cambridge Analytica reached out to WikiLeaks in the hopes of obtaining Hillary Clinton-related emails around the time the data-analytics firm began working with the Trump campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Speaking at the Web Summit digital conference in Portugal this week, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said that the outreach to WikiLeaks founder happened in “early June 2016.” Sources familiar with the matter told the Journal that the firm was in the advanced stages of contract negotiations with the Trump team at that time, and that some of its staffers were already working with the campaign’s digital arm.

“We received a message back from them that he didn’t want to and wasn’t able to, and that was the end of the story,” Nix said of Assange’s response to their request for “information” about Clinton-related emails, according to the Journal.

These new details flesh out previous reports in the newspaper and Daily Beast about Cambridge Analytica’s contact with WikiLeaks and Assange’s rejection of the firm’s pitch.

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